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Another evening in Brielle. The weather was OK, so we had a nice weizen beer on the terrace in front of this old house, called "de Hoof...

"He hated this stretch of motorway, so solemn, so grey, so depressing. Especially when it rains"

"You just have to head down the stairs from the hotel, and you'll arrive at the little harbour. Usually we dine at the last terr...

Yesterday evening the local firebrigade was dredging the canals of Brielle. I don't know what they were looking for, but all they found ...

No inspiration for some time now. So I draw all kind of uninteresting things that I come across. Like that they finally started with demolis...

A rainy day on the Maasvlakte, the heart of the Rotterdam harbours, only a few km from the sea. A sketch of one of the 6 huge conveyorsystem...

A canal in Brielle, last week. It's difficult to find anything else than cute Dutch scenes in Brielle.  It's funny how we Dutch tak...

More from Brielle, earlier this week. Bored of drawing cute little red roofed dutch houses, I drew two boys fishing in de canal. Two waterbi...

Woudschoten is a conference center near Zeist, where I had a Tebodin in-company training into Cradle to cradle, durable energy and other sus...

A terrible accident on the A2 motorway heading north happened two days ago. A truck drove into a military troopers transport truck, whose dr...

A few days ago, a sketch of the ferry between Rozenburg and Maasluis. It crosses the "nieuwe waterweg", the main shipping canal to...

My first attempt at oilpainting (alla prima), after an example in a book. I am used at painting with acrylic, and I made this to figure out ...

Still one night per week in Brielle. Another romantic little house. Nog steeds overnachtingen in Brielle, en dus nog steeds schetsen van het...

Fortifications of Brielle. Another few days of work in Rotterdam and a night in Brielle. I had already done the oil rig sketch that evening,...

Just a few blocks from the Rotterdam Tebodin office, in the harbour, there is the Verolme wharf where enormous oil drilling platforms are ...

Mart, my son, received the message that he passed his exams for secondary school. Finally! Mart kreeg bericht dat hij is geslaagd voor zijn...

Das Herbert Grönemeyer konzert im Rhein Energie Stadion in Köln. Es war wieder Grossartig, die Deutsche Zuschauer lasten sich gerne durch i...

Today we learned that yesterday evening one of my best friends Hans Scheepers unexpectedly passed away. We can only wish Jolanda, Iris and R...

Ascension day in Hoensbroek (posted a little late, I know), there is the yearly Braderie, a huge fair and outdoor market all over town. Impr...

Drawn this morning, before driving to work, a little sketch of an ancient windmill standing on the walls of the fortifications of Brielle. J...